Looks like the instructions on how to do it vary quite a bit. I finally figured out the purl stitch today and there were two different You Tube versions so I finally just did the knits and purls the way I learned to knit continental style and seemed to work out.
Anaways, here is the slouchy Beanie I Knooked. This took several hours as well. Mainly cuz I didn't know what I was doing and was playing with the stitches.
Since I didn't understand the instruction book and was doing this in the car on my way to Wisconsin ....13 hours on the trip there, and started getting bored like I tend to do with knitting, I decided to play with it a bit.
I started out like a basic crocheted hat... then knook knit a few rows. then I took each knit stitch around and slip into it 6 times to make long stitches. DH just borryied my camera so I'll try to describe in words. as you pull the yarn through for the knit stitch... just keep doing in.. crochet a chain of 6 stitches then insert into the next knit stitch on the tail and make a chain of 6 stitches in each knit stitch....then for the next row go back to regular knitting stitches. I made about 3 or 4 rows of knitting stitches in between rows of chain stitches. Then finished wiht a crochet rib as I couldn't figure out the purl stitch at the time to do a knooked rib. Sooooo... Whaddyaall think??????
Yesterday I set up my booth at the Ola Belle Reed Music Festival in Lansing NC...Here are some pics....
It rained really hard for about a half hour and I was just setting up again...so it's a bit of a mess.
Here's a bit of the festival:
